CONTEXT: While around 70% of Earth’s surface is covered with water, less than 1% per cent is actually drinkable. Desalination is highly energy intensive and environmentally toxic. But the unconventional freshwater resource is now vital for human survival in dry regions. Here are its challenges and advantages. Challenge: These finite freshwater resources are very unevenly …
Context: The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, for the alleged war crime of unlawfully deporting and transferring children from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation. While the former relates to the “unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement”, the latter relates to the direct or …
Context: Taking exception to the UPSC taking nearly 15 months to complete Civil Services Examination from notification to final results, a Parliamentary Standing Committee has said the duration of any recruitment exam “should not ordinarily exceed six months”. Fact: In the last five years, 2020 saw the highest time taken for completing the Civil Service Examination …
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Context: The next 15-20 days could decide how much wheat India is going to produce — but maybe not the course of food inflation. Currently, the crop in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, largely sown during the first half of November, is in the ‘milk to early dough’ stage. This is when the kernels have started …
ECI Appointment : SC Decision Why is NEWS? A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a high-power committee consisting of the Prime Minister, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, and the Chief Justice of India must pick the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election Commissioners (ECs). Background: A first PIL had been filed in …
1.Housing Price Index (HPI) published by National Housing Bank (NHB), ü NHB RESIDEX, India’s first official housing priceindex, was an initiative of the National Housing Bank (NHB) undertaken at thebehest of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. The index wasformulated under the guidance of a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)comprising of stakeholders from the …
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Answer: Part III or the constitution provider for the fundamental rights (FPs). Article 19(d) Provide for the freedom to move and reside any where in the territory of India. No as absolute right: Constitution provide for two grounds to restrict this right article 19(5): Inconvenience to citizens. Protection of rights of scheduled tribes (STs) Why …
Answer: Indian constitution Provides for the Supreme court of India (SC) under Article 124. It was envisaged as the final interpreter of the constitution. In contemporary times with rise of global and domestic climate risk and supra national organisation and engagement with these SC has constitutionalized environmental Problems as: 1. MC Mehta Case: brought in …
